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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






2. The dictionary meaning of a word.






3. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






4. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






5. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






6. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






7. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






8. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






9. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






10. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






11. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






12. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






13. Broken down acts.






14. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






15. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






16. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






17. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






18. The main character of a literary work.






19. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






20. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






21. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






22. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






23. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






24. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






25. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






26. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






27. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






28. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






29. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






30. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






31. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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32. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






33. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






34. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






35. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






36. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






37. The organizational form of a literary work.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






39. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






40. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






41. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






43. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






44. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






45. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






46. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






47. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






48. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






49. A short saying with a moral.






50. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.